"Then... I'm leaving..." Le Zhengtang looked at Ningxia.
After spending a few days together, the two became much more familiar with each other.
Ningxia looked back, eyes full of seriousness. "Well, go back to the barracks and take good care of your legs. When you return to the sentry post, we're not too far away anyway, so I'll make you a nice Bluebird State home-cooked meal."
She had nothing else to offer, so she could only repay him with some insignificant but still delicious meals.
Le Zhengtang looked away embarrassedly, his depressed mood dissipated a lot, "Okay." He replied softly, and before they parted, he was already looking forward to the next day they met.
The old men behind him looked at each other, smelling an unusual smell, their eyes full of interest. On the way back to the camp, they caught Le Zheng and had another fight with him, but they will not mention it for now.
After seeing them off, the three siblings strolled back to their rooms to rest. Ningxia burped nonchalantly, her voice agape as she recalled the meal costing two hundred points.
This was too expensive. Ten people ate a meal worth 200 kilograms of whole grains. Although the taste was average, there was a wide variety of food. Ningxia also enjoyed the rare treatment of having a handful of food to eat.
"elder brother!"
Sangsang's dissatisfied voice came, and Lin Yi turned his head to look at the other party in confusion.
"Why are you niacing me?"
Lin Yi was puzzled: "What do you mean?"
"Just now, when Brother Xiaojie said goodbye to Sangbao, you! Nia me with your eyes! I saw it!"
It would have been fine if he hadn't said it. As soon as he said it, Lin Yi felt goosebumps all over again. He pursed his lips and an expression of disgust appeared on his face again.
"That's it! That's it!"
"Sang~bao~" Lin Yi rarely showed off his cuteness, and the disgust on his face was real.
Sangsang shook off Lin Yi's hand, "I like the name Sangbao! Don't laugh!"
After saying this, Sangsang seemed to have thought of something. She covered her mouth with her hands and smiled mischievously, "I know! Brother, are you jealous?"
Lin Yi shook his head repeatedly, his lips trembling in amusement. As his relationship with Xiaojie improved, he wished he could take Sangsang away for two days. This little girl was too noisy. Jealous? That would only happen eight hundred years ago.
Seeing that Lin Yi really disliked her, Sangsang refused to stand it and shook off Lin Yi's slender hand.
"I don't care! I like Sang Bao! You have to call me Sang Bao from now on! You can't call me Sang Bao! You have to call me nicely! Just like Brother Xiaojie!" Sang Sang said while imitating Lin Yi's sarcastic voice with a cheeky smile.
Ningxia burst into laughter. Sangsang turned his head in displeasure, his thick, short eyebrows lowered, not a bit fierce, but full of silliness.
"What! Do you want to be mean to me too? Okay, Sangbao, stop messing with your brother." Ningxia joked with a smile.
Sangsang could easily hear the mocking tone in Ningxia's "Sangbao". "Hmph!" He was angry but dared not say anything. He snorted heavily, folded his two slender arms, and walked forward with his little mouth pouting, which made people laugh.
The three returned to their room. Lei Lao Hu had only booked the room for three days, so Ning Xia went to add another three days. The staff at the station had been taking advantage of the low prices they'd paid for pork over the previous two days, so they turned a blind eye and calculated the room rate based on the coalition's rate.
"Sister Xia Xia, are we going back?" Lin Yi asked while lying on the bed opposite.
"Well, let's go to the trading point tomorrow to exchange for food, come back and make some food to take with us, and then we'll go home. Is there anything you want to eat? We'll go exchange it tomorrow, and we still have quite a bit of money in our card."
When Sangsang heard this, he jumped up and said, "I want candy! Let's go home and melt it in water!"
Seeing that she almost rolled off the bed, Ningxia raised her hand and slapped her on the butt, "Behave!"
The bed was small to begin with, and it was hard for the two of them to squeeze in, and the dead kid was still jumping up and down.
Sangsang giggled twice and lay back down beside Ningxia. "Xia Xia, buy it for me, buy it for me, please, please."
Ningxia raised an eyebrow, "You'll have to take Chinese medicine when you get back. If you promise me that you'll take the medicine obediently, I'll change it for you."
Sangsang pondered for a moment, then frowned and asked, "Is Chinese medicine worse than patchouli?"
“It’s not as bad as patchouli, but it’s probably a little more bitter than patchouli.”
Sangsang relaxed her frown and said, "Okay! I'll drink the medicine obediently. Xia Xia will give me some candy instead."
"Hook?"
"Yeah, pinky promise."
Ningxia breathed a sigh of relief. Although Sangsang had a bad temper, she was honest and trustworthy about things she had agreed to.
When she gets home, she'll have to take the medicine four times a day for thirty days straight. If I don't make an appointment with her in advance, I don't know how much trouble I'll have to go through.
The sugar in that jar was completely gone, and the sugar we exchanged for at the trading point was almost gone too. This was the result of Ningxia's careful control.
However, although Sangsang made a lot of sugar water, he was never a stingy child. Whenever he asked Ningxia for permission to let her brother make sugar water for her, the little girl would always take the initiative to make a cup for each of them, so the sugar was consumed quickly.
With enough food in hand, Ningxia not only plans to exchange for more fine grains to improve the lives of her two children, she also wants to buy more various seasonings!
No matter how good your cooking skills are, they are meaningless without the supporting ingredients. She has always loved to think about food, and now that she has the conditions, she must show her skills.
Ningxia looked at Sangsang beside her, her eyes filled with warmth. She was thankful the little girl wasn't seriously ill, and thankfully the three of them were living together. She couldn't imagine the loneliness and despair she would have led if she had settled in the forest alone.
"These furs are not cheap." Ningxia looked at the furs in the display cabinet at the trading point and silently tightened his pockets.
Xiao Zhang smiled and said, "My furs are not cheap during this period. After all, the next stage is the Frost Month. If you come to buy before the Sun Month, you can get it for only two-thirds of the current price."
Ningxia was also helpless. The little spare money that Lieyangyue had before was all exchanged for food. Where would he get the surplus food to exchange for furs?
"Come back in two months and you'll see they'll be even more expensive than they are now. The closer we get to the colder months, the more these things will go up in price."
Ningxia had originally planned to buy a large batch of them back home, using one layer on the mattress and one layer on my body. This thing isn't very beautiful, but it's incredibly warm.
But it was too expensive. Even if she emptied her card, she still couldn't buy two fur mattresses.
Ningxia reluctantly took out two exquisite furs she had found in the small house beside her home and asked, "How much do you want for these?"
She had already inquired and found out that it would be much more profitable to sell this thing to a caravan or middlemen than to the official. However, she waited for several days and no caravan came here.
Upon inquiry, I discovered this was the Chocobo base. The market system there was too sophisticated and tightly controlled. Caravans and middlemen could hardly make any money. Not only did they avoid the trading point in Morning, but even the entire Bluebird State wouldn't specifically come here to do business unless they were passing through.
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